Using iPod docks with Droid via an adapter

Standard connectors in portable devices would be great for the consumer, but then you wouldn’t purchase separate peripherals for ever portable you buy (lining the pockets of the companies licensing said peripherals). [Thijs] isn’t taking it lying down any longer. Realizing that the shape of the connector is one of the only things standing in the way, he built an adapter to use iPod docks with Droid. The hardware consists of a USB connector, audio jack, iPod connector, and a magnet. After working out the wiring it was just a matter of building a chassis using polymorph material. As you can see above, his expensive dock has no problem playing nicely with Droid because of his handy work.

“Standard connectors in portable devices would be great for the consumer, but then you wouldn’t purchase separate peripherals for ever portable you buy (lining the pockets of the companies licensing said peripherals). [Thijs] isn’t taking it lying down any longer.”

Ummm… Isn’t this the opposite of that? Making things work with the iPod’s closed design/adapator really seems like it’s working to line the pockets of the people who designed that propriatary adapter and license it, to me.

i think it’s genius for those of us who had once, as you say, lined the pockets of one of the big companies, but now chooses to use a different device, but still has those proprietary devices and wants to still use it with the new device.

i say, good show for putting together a very simple to follow diy for doing this.

I already have done this kind of connection with my droid and my car! I have a standalone unit that plugs into the factory head unit and impersonates a cd changer. Problem is it is for a ipod, so I made the same adapter in the article. Works great, even the steering wheel controls function to change songs on my phone as they did in the past with my ipod.